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That is random, for sure. The Kennedy shot looks fake, but it also looks like fun. Garance Doré shows us that shooting into the sun can work, given the right model and wear. As for Lapo Elkann, I love his style, especially as shown in this photograph.

The JFK photo was identified as a hoax a few weeks ago. "[T]he man TMZ identified as Kennedy was a 'paid model,' as were the naked women featured in the shot." http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/1228092jfkpic1.html

wow, that Michigan Theater photo by Sean Dorr looks just like the one Life published this month, which looks just like the one taken by Andrew Moore which was the same as the one Sean Hemmerle published in Time two years ago, which looked exactly like the one taken by Marchand & Meffre the year before, which was the exact same shot that Camilo Jose Vergara took of that theater twenty or thirty years ago when the auto industry was thriving and cities all over the country were also tearing down their big, fancy movie palaces (the Michigan was "saved" only because it was structurally entwined with the still-operating office building).

I guess I should consider myself lucky that all the fancy out-of-town photographers take pictures of the same things here in Detroit. If they ever deviated from the Standard Detroit Ruins Tour, they might discover how beautiful and amazing and green my city is, and point their cameras at the things I try to take pictures of (though I would never deny the appeal of a good ruin).

That first picture instantly reminded me of James Griffieon's photographs of Detroit, which were featured in Vice Magazine and Harper's Bazaar a while back. Or, what he's termed the feral city. He just came to visit the University of Virginia and brought up the fact that photo students have an automatic attraction to abandoned buildings (or ruin porn).

One of the things that Griffieon focuses on is the reestablishment of the natural back into the city landscape. A taking back of something that has been lost or destroyed?

"If only all blogs were as life-affirming and tender-hearted as that of gallerist James Danziger. Whether his focus falls on the work of an individual artist or a particular theme, The Year in Pictures is compulsive reading."